Car found running in garage of NYC home where four people died

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A car was found running in the garage of a New York City home where four elderly people were found dead, leading investigators to suspect carbon monoxide poisoning, police said on Saturday.

Police found the bodies of the two men and two women on Friday afternoon in the two story house in the city's Queens borough, near the border with Nassau County on Long Island, the New York Police Department said.

It was unknown how the long the car's engine had been running, a police spokesman said.

Local media said the deaths appeared to be accidental.

The city Medical Examiner's Office will determine the cause of death, police said, and investigators are examining the possibility the victims died from carbon monoxide poisoning.